I would first like to apologize for my absence recently, I’ve been of course busy with work, and then there was a trip to Florida to visit the crazy Turks. That is a post for later.

Moving on to finishing up the posts I’ve started over the last few weeks and not gotten around to finishing, I’d like to start back with my adventures in coffee making.

I freely admit I’m a coffee-a-holic. I must have it every morning, and if I don’t I get those annoying lack of morning caffeine headaches. Yeah I’m addicted. A few weeks ago I’d had to do without my Saturday morning cup(s) as I was out of creamer here at the house. I do love my coffee, but I just cannot drink it black. I was proud of myself, I’d gone a whole day without any. Sunday though I couldn’t resist. I’d gone out and gotten my creamer Saturday afternoon, I was up and ready Sunday for a delicious cup. I pour my grounds into the filter, fill the coffee maker up with water, and hit the button. Nothing. I hit the button again,,, still nothing. Fantastic, my years old coffee maker has finally died.

Ok I tell myself, this is not a problem. It is still early, I can just go buy another coffee maker. So off I go to Meijers. I purchase my brand new coffee maker and head happily home. As soon as I get home, I unpack it, ready to fill it up and get my caffeine on. Then I realize, I’ve got filters, but of course my new coffee maker uses differen filters than the old one, and there are no free filters included with the new purchase. Ok, another kink in the coffee making plans. I am annoyed now, but I try to relax. The NCAA tournament was on, so I figure, it’s fine. I will distract myself with basketball, then I will go buy filters.

Post game I’m off to the closest store, a walgreens to buy filters. Of course, shockingly our Walgreens doesn’t carry ANY apparently. So I head to the NEXT closest store, the Kroger. Finally I find filters and head back home. I put coffee in new filter, load it up and pour water into the proper place in the BRAND NEW coffee maker. Next thing I know I have a half a pot of water pouring out of the bottom of the BRAND NEW coffee maker and onto my kitchen counter and floor. It’s 3pm, my brand new coffee maker is defective, I’ve had NO coffee and now I’m pissed.

A normal person would have just gone and purchased a cup of coffee from somewhere, anywhere. I am not a normal person, and now it’s all about making my OWN coffee. It must be made from my own coffee maker, and I must make it with my own two hands. A1 is perfectly aware of my crazy, and at this point I am in full blown crazy mode.

Off I go again to buy a new coffee maker. Meijers has pissed me off with it’s defective crap, so I go to the local walmart. I but ANOTHER new coffee maker, ensure I have the correct filters and head home. I start to make a new pot, YAY this one holds water, the filters fit, I can hear the percolating… Then my work phone rings. The coffee is there, brewing, tempting me, and I am stuck on a call with the office. I have to go to work.. I WILL NOT LEAVE WITHOUT MY COFFEE. So I pour my coffee, my own two hands brewed coffee into a travel mug and head to work. I do have to say that at 6pm on a Sunday night that cup of coffee may have been the best tasting cup of coffee I’ve ever had.